Car-fender.



PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

E. GAMPANARI.

OAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 11. 1905.

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CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed August 11, 1905. Serial No. 273.752.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI OAMPANARI, a citizen of the United States, andaresident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedOar-Fender, ofwhich the following is afull, clear, and

exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in street-railway car-fenders,the object being to provide afender so constructed that when notrequired for use it may be easily and conveniently folded against thedashboard of the car by the motorman without his getting off the car,and, further, to so construct the arts that the fender may be attachedto either end of the car.

I will describe a car-fender embodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended cliams.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a car-fender embodying my invention,showing the same asdown. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is afront view showing the fender as folded. Fig. 4 is a side view thereof,and Fig. 5 is a detailillustrating the means for securing thefender-frame to a car.

The fender comprises a main frame 1, designed to be detachably securedto the front of the car-dashboard; As here shown, the side rails of theframe 1 have reduced lower ends 2 for engaging in openings in hangers 3,depending from the sill of the car. As clearly shown in the drawings,the hangers each have two openings or socket members on differentvertical planes, so that the frame may be raised or lowered toaccommodate the fender to the height of the car from the rails. On theupper cross bar 4 of the main frame is a lug 5, having a threadedextension 6, on which is a thumb-nut 7. This extension when the frame isin position is designed to be engaged by a hook 8, pivoted on the rail 9of the dashboard. When the said hook is engaging with the threadedextension, it is clamped by means of the thumb-nut 7.

The fender-frame consists of an upper section 10 and a lower section 11,these sections being pivotally connected together, so that the lowersection may fold upon the upper section, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4,and connected to these frame-sections is the netting 12. A bar 13 at theupper end of the fenderframe has bearings in the side bars of the mainframe 1, and mounted to swing on the lower cross-bar 14 of the mainframe is a supporting-arm 15, having a slot 16 for receiving a pin 17,extended from a side bar of the lower frame member 11. Connected to theopposite side bar of said lower frame member is a toggle-link,consisting of a lower section 18 and an upper section 19, the said uppersection being pivoted at about its center to the side rail of the framemember 10, and at its upper end the said toggle-link member 19 haspivotal connection with an arm 20, pivoted to the side rail of the mainframe 1.

Attached to the frame 20 is a segmentplate 21, which is arranged toslide in a guide 22 on the side bar or rail of the main frame .1, asclearly indicated in the drawings. This segment-plate 21 is providedwith two handles 22 23, one arranged below the other, so that one or theother will be in a convenient position, depending upon the arrangementof the main frame in the hangers 3.

When the fender is in its lower position, it is supported at one side bythe link-and-arm conhook 27, mounted on the bar 4, and engages with alug 28 on the upper member 19 of the toggle-link.

A car-fender made in accordance with my invention may be of very lightconstruction,

and therefore readily carried from one end of the car to the other, andthrough the medium of the toggle-links and connections with thesegment-plate it may be readily raised or lowered by a Inotorinanwithout his getting off the car. 1

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A car-fender comprising a main frame, afender-frame consisting of two hinged sections having swingingconnection with the main frame, an arm mounted to swing on the mainframe, toggle-link connections between said arm and the lower members ofthe fenderframe, a segment-plate having pivotal connectionwith said arm,and a guide on the main frame through which said segmentplate may move.

2. In a car-fender, a main frame, hangers on the car in which the lowerends of the side rails of the main frame removably engage, a hook on thedashboard of the car, a threaded extension on the top rail of the main'frame with which said hook is designed to engage, a clamping-nut on saidextension, and a fender attached to the main frame.

3. A car-fender comprising a main frame, a fender-frame consisting ofupper and lower pivotally-connected sections, the upper member beingpivotally connected to the side bars of the main frame, a slottedguide-arm pivoted to one of said side bars of the main frame, a pinextended from the lower section of the fender-frame into the slot ofsaid arm, an arm mounted to swing on the main frame, a toggle-linkconnection between said arm and the lower member of the fender-frame, asegment-plate pivoted to said arm, and a guide on the main frame inwhich said segment-plate may slide.

4. In a car-fender, a main frame, hangers secured to a car-sill and eachhaving socket members arranged at different vertical planes forreceiving the lower ends of the main frame, means for detachablyconnecting the upper portion of the main frame with the rail of thecar-dashboard, and a fender mounted on the main frame.

5. A car-fender comprising a main frame, a foldable fender mounted onthe main frame, an arm having swinging connection with the main frame, atoggle-link connection between said arm and the fender-frame, a lug onthe upper member of said toggle-link, and a hook on the main frame forengaging With said lug.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELI OAMPANARI.

Witnesses:

C. R. FERGUSON, E. O. N IELSON.

